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But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their necks and did not hearken unto thy commandments
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and refused to hear; neither did they remember thy wonders that thou hadst done among them, but hardened their necks and in their rebellion
thought to appoint a leader to return to their bondage; but thou
art a God of pardons, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great mercy, for thou didst not leave them.
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Even when they had made themselves a molten calf and said, This
is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had committed great abominations;
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yet thou in thy manifold mercies didst not forsake them in the wilderness; the pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to illuminate the way in which they should go.
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Thou didst give thy good spirit to teach them and didst not withhold thy manna from their mouth and didst give them water for their thirst.
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Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness
so that they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wax old, and their feet did not swell.
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Thou didst give them kingdoms and peoples and didst divide them into corners; so they possessed the land of Sihon and the land of the king of Heshbon and the land of Og, king of Bashan.
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Thou didst multiply their sons as the stars of heaven and didst introduce them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to inherit
it.
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So the sons came in and possessed the land, and thou didst humble the inhabitants of the land before them, the Canaanites, and didst give them into their hand, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
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And they took strong cities and fertile land and inherited houses full of all goods, hewn cisterns, vineyards and oliveyards and many trees of good fruit; so they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
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Nevertheless, they were contentious and rebelled against thee and cast thy law behind their backs and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great abominations.